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of members nominated by the County Councils Association, 

 the Agricultural Education Association, the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of England and other leading agricultural 

 organisations, together with six additional members to be 

 nominated by the Presidents of the two Boards so as to 

 provide for the inclusion (a) of persons specially competent 

 to deal with educational questions so far as the rural districts 

 are concerned, and (b) of representatives of districts not ade- 

 quately covered by existing agricultural organisations. The 

 Conference will be attended also by such Officers of the two 

 Boards as may be nominated by their respective Presidents 

 to take part in its deliberations and to supply information or 

 to give explanations with regard to any questions that may 

 be raised. 



2. In order to avoid overlapping or duplication of work in 

 the sphere of Agricultural Education between the Board of 

 Agriculture and the Board of Education, and at the same time 

 to secure that every portion of the field is as largely aided and 

 developed as possible, by the combined and separate efforts 

 of the two Boards, it has been arranged that in future all 

 Parliamentary Grants in respect of Agricultural Education 

 shall be distributed, in the case of Institutions giving instruc- 

 tion to students taking Advanced Courses in Agriculture or 

 in some special branch thereof as further defined below, by 

 the Board of Agriculture, and as regards other forms of 

 Agricultural Education by the Board of Education. But this 

 distribution will be carried out by both Boards under con- 

 ditions which will secure that the various sections of work- 

 thus aided are in due relation to one another. And, in order 

 to facilitate this, an Inter-Departmental Committee consisting 

 of responsible Officers of the two Boards will be constituted, 

 to consider and report to the Boards on all questions which 

 may arise either as to the correlation of the duties of the two 

 Boards or as to the grants to be made in cases in which they 

 are mutually interested. This Committee will meet from 

 time to time as may be required. Officers of either Board, 

 other than those appointed as members of the Committee, 

 may assist the Committee from time to time as the Committee 

 or either Board may think desirable. 



3. The sphere of work thus falling to the Board of Agri- 



